If you want to feel how amazing the days of the gladiators,
you can come to the Coliseum (also called by Colosseum / Colloseo). Colosseum
Roma is one of the best tourist attractions and most popular in Italy. It feels
incomplete if you come Rome without does not stop at the Colosseum, as one of
the icons of Rome. This building is located in Piazza del Colosseo 1, 00184
Rome, Italy. It is located to the east of the Roman Forum, the former square
full of rubble of old buildings that are also becoming one of the other popular
tourist destinations in Rome.
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The building was built in the year 70, it means that the age
of the building has been nearly 2000 years. The history of Roman Colloseum
construction was started by Emperor Vespasian, completed by his successor, the
Emperor Titus. The building colloseum has also been modified by the Emperor
Domitian. The third emperor of the Flavian dynasty known as Flavius family.
As a theater, the Colosseum is the largest amphitheater in
the world. Accommodation capacity can accommodate an audience of up to 80,000
people. The building has a height of 48
m, 188 m long, 156 m wide and wide around the building about 2.5 ha, and looks
so magnificent. The arena is made of wood measuring 86 mx 54 m, and covered by
sand.
Colosseum at that time was the venue for a spectacular show,
which is a fight between animals (venetaiones), a fight between inmates and
animals, execution of prisoners (noxii), water fight (naumachiae) by flooding
the arena, and battles between gladiators (munera). For hundreds of years it is
estimated that thousands of people and animals died in the Colosseum
performances. This continues to happen until the year 400, when the empire
abolished this activity.
Elliptical or spherical shape of the Colosseum is useful to
prevent the players to escape towards a corner and keep the distance the
audience to remain in a safe area. Seating in the Colosseum itself is divided
into different levels based on social status in Roman society.
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The building is considered as the best works of Roman
architecture heritage and became a symbol of the Roman Empire in ancient times.
Although it is now only in the form of ruins, Rome City landmarks remained a
tourist destination that is often visited by tourists both local and foreign
tourists. The building is already visible damaged and destroyed half, most of
the damage caused by the earthquake in the middle of the 5th century. However,
you can still see the charm of the grandeur of the building which became one of
the Sixty-Nine Wonders of the Medieval World this.
The name Colosseum itself is taken from the name of a large
statue as high as 130 feet or 40 meters of the Colossus of Nero. Colossus
statue of Nero instead remade as a parable of Sol the sun god, by adding sun
crown. The Colosseum is also often referred to as the Flavian Amphitheatre. It
is not clear who the giver's name. In Italy, Colosseum is named Il Colosseo but
other Roman languages use the term Le Colisée and El Coliseo to mention the
Colosseum.
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